sometimes, random news articles brighten may day just a little bit. this piece about lewis, the crazy cat, is one of them.

FAIRFIELD, Conn. (AP) -- Residents of the neighborhood of Sunset Circle say they have been terrorized by a crazy cat named Lewis. Lewis for his part has been uniquely cited, personally issued a restraining order by the town's animal control officer.

"He looks like Felix the Cat and has six toes on each foot, each with a long claw," Janet Kettman, a neighbor said Monday. "They are formidable weapons."

The neighbors said those weapons, along with catlike stealth, have allowed Lewis to attack at least a half dozen people and ambush the Avon lady as she was getting out of her car.

i love the part about "the Avon lady." like, they don't even name her. she's just The one and only avon lady. who cats hate. awesome.

It's pretty disappointing to see BoingBoing post about "electrosensitivity", an imagined allergy to electrical noise. People have been looking for a connection between electromagnetic fields and cancer for ages without much luck. Now I guess the kooks are retreating to claims that these mysterious (and therefore evil) rays are causing vague and difficult-to-quantify declines in quality of life and, I don't know, aura color, maybe?

All of that would be fine if it didn't seem so likely to be embraced, extended, and eventually put on the cover of Time with a big headline ending in a question mark. We've already got every nerd with a Perl book and a twin bed going around explaining to the world how he has Asperger's. I really, really don't need hypochondriacs seated next to me on airplanes to start asking me to shut off my laptop for the flight's duration.

None of this is to deny that some people might get headaches from the omnipresent 60 Hz hum that surrounds North American electricity users. But that's something different entirely from the high-tech animism that motivates this disease-of-the-week nonsense. Bah! Remember, BoingBoing: electricity good, patent regime bad...

Justin reports that cops are handing out jaywalking tickets in the Golden Triangle this morning. Beware! Also, as always please bear in mind that your downtown business district may be haunted. Take appropriate precautions.

Q: Given that you're clearly much too old and mature for this sort of thing, will this ever stop being funny?

A: Strangely, no.